Somewhere in Cyberspace – Stephen Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada, used a hammer to break out two tempered glass windows in his room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.

And then he rained hell and hot lead on 22,000 unsuspecting people having a good time listening to the tunes at the Route 91 concert.

Paddock, an accountant with millions at his disposal was a pilot and a wheeler dealer who liked to gamble, according to his brother, who said he could recall no especial political bent about his brother.

He and a female companion named Marilou Danley, 62, had been holed up in the hotel room with 10 guns, obviously some of them automatic, and about 400 pounds of ammo. Curiously, housekeeping staff said they never noticed the artillery when they tidied up each day.

Paddock and his brother reportedly had no criminal background, but their father was a serial bank robber who spent a lot of time behind bars.

At last count, some 59 persons are dead in the bloody onslaught and 515 injured.

Our correspondent, Blake Taylor, prayed for Vegas, for us all, and he began his report by saying, “This is not about politics…”